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Sinead O'Connor's Most Memorable Moments

Sinead O'Connor is still making headlines, 20 years into her career. Having battled everything from the Catholic Church to drug addiction, the Irish icon remains beloved and despised. Though nothing compares to her pop stardom of the early '90s (har har), we're nonetheless psyched for her shows at t ... More >>

Mormons: A Shallow Yet Helpful Guide to See If You Should Hate Them or Not

Sinead O'Connor is still making headlines, 20 years into her career. Having battled everything from the Catholic Church to drug addiction, the Irish icon remains beloved and despised. Though nothing compares to her pop stardom of the early '90s (har har), we're nonetheless psyched for her shows at t ... More >>

Scuffing Up TOMS Shoes

Sinead O'Connor is still making headlines, 20 years into her career. Having battled everything from the Catholic Church to drug addiction, the Irish icon remains beloved and despised. Though nothing compares to her pop stardom of the early '90s (har har), we're nonetheless psyched for her shows at t ... More >>

Did TOMS' Blake Mycoskie Really Not Know About Anti-Gay Focus on the Family?

Blake Mycoskie​Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS shoes, landed in a heap of trouble when news broke on Friday that he spoke at a June 30 Focus on the Family event in Orange County. Focus on the Family's longtime anti-gay agenda is ugly and widely known. Soulforce, the gay rights organization ... More >>

Pope Sends 'Historic' First Tweet (VIDEO)

news.vaDon't strain a knuckle there, champ.​Was it something about the visit of modern-minded Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, currently in Vatican City for to receive a special wool pallium, that inspired Pope Benedict XVI to warble out his first Tweet, via Twitter for iPad, this afterno ... More >>

Cardinal Roger Mahony Vilified for Cleansing 'Predator Priests' List of Names from His L.A. Archdiocese Web Site

Cardinal Roger Mahony​With Cardinal Roger Mahony getting ready to retire from the Roman Catholic Los Angeles Archdiocese, his eminence is pulling some strange, ill-conceived moves again, now refusing to maintain an updated list of sexually abusive priests on the archdiocese's web site. The ... More >>

Cardinal Roger Mahony Slams Prop. 8 Decision

Cardinal Roger Mahony​On his blog on Wednesday, Cardinal Roger Mahony, who leads the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, slammed U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker for overturning Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that took away the existing right of gays and lesbians to legally marry in Ca ... More >>

'Mormon Proposition' Director Reed Cowan Addresses Rash of Gay Mormon Suicides

Todd Ransom​A 28-year-old gay Mormon took his own life in Utah on July 19, which outrages documentary filmmaker Reed Cowan, who made 8: The Mormon Proposition. On the blogosphere, it's been reported that the young man, Todd Ransom, was interviewed for the film, but Cowan says Ransom signed up ... More >>

Lawsuit Alleges Cardinal Roger Mahony Covered-Up Molestation Claim

Cardinal Roger Mahony.​A new lawsuit against the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles alleges that Cardinal Roger Mahony built a "conspiracy of silence" that kept church officials addressing claims that a parishioner who was 12 at the time was being molested regularly. The victim, now 27, stat ... More >>

Pope Names Texas Latino To Succeed Cardinal Mahony

​Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio to succeed Cardinal Roger Mahony as head of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, putting the Texan in line to become the highest-ranking Latino Catholic church leader in the United States. The Los Angeles Archdiocese made the announcement ... More >>

Has Cardinal Roger Mahony's Successor Been Named?

​That's what Thomas Peters, a Washington, D.C.-based blogger, is claiming in a recent post. Peters says that Cardinal Roger Mahony has approved the selection of a coadjutor bishop who would succeed him as Archbishop of Los Angeles when Mahony hits the retirement age of 75 next year:Some of the fac ... More >>

Jesus Arrives At The Prop. 8 Trial; Bible Invoked

Prop. 8's backers probably wouldn't appreciate it if you called him Hey-soos.​It's nice to know where the anti-same-sex-marriage-law backers are coming from in the challenge to Prop. 8 being heard in San Francisco this week. Indeed, on Tuesday they seemed to put their cards on the table by inv ... More >>

L.A.'s Episcopal Diocese Stokes Gay Controversy

The L.A. Times reports today on the Los Angeles Episcopal Church Diocese's nomination of two gay ministers for suffragan bishop's seats. Only last month leaders of the national episcopate, meeting in Anaheim, ​voted to permit the consecration of homosexual clergy. The L.A. diocese put forward six ... More >>

Prop. 8 Priestess Wrote Screeds Against Gays & Vatican

Brenda Lee, the self-described "Catholic priestess" from Anaheim, had press credentials to be in the presidential media area near Air Force One today. She had come to present a letter to President Obama urging him to take a stand for traditional marriage. She could have saved herself the time and tr ... More >>

Angels & Demons: Holy Crap

Da Vinci Code sequel has a need for speed

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Dem on Dem Payback State Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-L.A.) disciplined three members of her party for not voting to put spending limits on the ballot -- part of a key compromise Democrats made to finally pass a budget with Republicans. Stripped of their committee chairmanships were Black Caucus l ... More >>

Missionary Position

Dem on Dem Payback State Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-L.A.) disciplined three members of her party for not voting to put spending limits on the ballot -- part of a key compromise Democrats made to finally pass a budget with Republicans. Stripped of their committee chairmanships were Black Caucus l ... More >>

Prop 8: Blacks and Gay Marriage — The Wrong Kind of Unity

A messy new alliance — tag team for intolerance

The Ex-Mormon Factor

A messy new alliance — tag team for intolerance

Los Angeles Protests Stop Mormon Marriages

It's one of those odd twists that leaders of the Mormon Church probably never saw coming. Whenever opponents of Proposition 8, the ballot measure that eliminates the right of gays and lesbians to legally marry in California, protest outside a Mormon temple, they effectively stop church members from ... More >>

Queer Town: The Catholic Power Play to Ban Gay Marriage

Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Roman Catholic leader of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, has been keeping somewhat of a low-profile in the battle over same sex marriage in California, but he can't keep his name out of the headlines any longer. One of the most powerful and influential Catholic priests in ... More >>

the Semantics of Suicide Aid in Dying

God, PR and the right to die in California

Crazed Catholics

God, PR and the right to die in California

Immigrant Women Speak About Leaving the Church

God, PR and the right to die in California

Virgin / Whore

The Catholic Church and women — can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em

Stalino-Papism

The Vatican goes with its chief inquisitor

The Mortal Storm

The Deaths of the 20th Century

Cardinal Untruths

Mahony’s testimony in sex scandal clashes with earlier statements and reality

Blessed by the Devil

Orange’s dirty deal threatens to brush away the priest scandal

Demon Democrats

Some revelations about good and evil in Florida

The Man in Red

Pray tell, what are Steve Cooley’s plans for Cardinal Mahony?

Veil of Secrecy Torched

Judge’s order could bring prosecutors closer to the man in red

Pursuing the Vatican Vote

Bush woos John Paul II

Roger’s Nest

So what keeps this cardinal from flying away?

Smoke-filled Churches

So what keeps this cardinal from flying away?

Cardinal Sins

How the Catholic Church, legal community and PR machine are conspiring to protect Roger Mahony

Dear God!

Is the cathedral desecrating the Virgin of Guadalupe?

Behind the Robes

Pondering the secrets Cardinal Mahony might hold about the Catholic sex scandal

The Sinner Behind the Saint

Juan Diego got his halo with help from the worldly and shrewd Bishop Cepeda

A Cardinal Conspiracy

Renewed interest in an unsolved 1993 killing in Guadalajara

Crucified Again

Eastside priest accused of sex sins

The Mission Is on a Mission

And Cardinal Mahony has been its target for years

Demons on Broadway

Miracles. Exorcism. Catholic-bashing. Going for broke in the Universal Church.

No Borders

Making and selling The Other Conquest

Then This Priest Says. . .

Making and selling The Other Conquest

The Pope Trope

Making and selling The Other Conquest